I should know better by now, I really should, but I’m watching those damned Animal Cop shows on Animal Planet.<\/p>\n
I’ve only been watching them for about two days, but it’s bringing back something that annoyed me when I first saw it in this HBO documentary about some dog shelter.<\/p>\n
Temperament testing.
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\nIf you don’t know what that is, it seems to be this thing they do to dogs where they basically harass the thing until it bites a rubber hand, and when it does bite, everyone gets all sad because the dog has to die<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Because ‘you just can’t in good conscience place that dog in a home.’<\/p>\n
Tonight, on one of the shows, they had this rescued part shepherd looking thing that was obviously very friendly and very timid all at the same time — desperate to please the person it bonded with — and they did the food bowl test on it. First, it froze, then, after they poked around at its face a few dozen times, it started growling.<\/p>\n
Oh, so sad, has to die, has to die. Might bite a kid.<\/p>\n
What they’re really saying is ‘we need an excuse to kill off another dog because nobody we adopt to is competent enough to handle anything we offer them.’<\/p>\n
I’m just hoping that there are a few…sane individuals out there that realise that these dogs don’t deserve to die just because they require the owner to not DO STUPID SHIT AROUND THE DOG. Would YOU stick your hand in front of an eating animal? I wouldn’t. That’s just not smart<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The damned dog can be placed — not with a family, maybe, but with a person [or couple] that only wants one animal and has enough common sense to not poke at an eating dog.<\/p>\n
“Oh, but it might decide it wants to own the sofa!”<\/p>\n
Maybe. Somehow, I doubt it. Especially if the whole “dogs just need to be around people” thing is anything like true. The dog could probably be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n
I think we should start going around, trying to take away peoples’ plates, and when they complain, we should euthanise them. That’s obviously the solution for everything.<\/p>\n
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I should know better by now, I really should, but I’m watching those damned Animal Cop shows on Animal Planet. I’ve only been watching them for about two days, but it’s bringing back something that annoyed me when I first … Continue reading